2 Looking ahead, country reports and power development plan documents indicate continued growth in electricity demand over the next several decades, making the power sector infrastructure even more critical for enabling socioeconomic development and progress on the SDGs. While addressing rapidly rising ...
Sport as politics and history: The 25th SEA Games in Laos Like the recent World Cup in South Africa and the Beijing 2008 Olympics, December 2009's Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Laos were embraced by the state as evidence of national achievement and progress. Yet, just like these much lar...
3.2.1 LITERACY Lao PDR has made significant progress in increasing literacy and education levels. The overall literacy rate increased from 72.7 percent (2005 Census) to 84.7 percent (2015 Census). There are over 300,000 illiterate youth in the Lao PDR (aged 15 to 24 years), including 60 ...
Milbank et al. [23], who assessed the progress of REDD+ projects towards sustainable development goals and the challenges in aligning REDD+ rules with national policies. The mentioned studies have examined the effectiveness of stakeholder participation in REDD+ projects. However, significant barriers ...
Family firms are the backbone of the socialist transition to a market-oriented economy in Laos. Working capital is an important area of finance that has not been widely studied in relation to family firms’ decision-making. We hypothesize that working capital has a positive cross-lagged effect ...